Aircraft
India’s ePlane Set To Start Flight Testing Two-seat eVTOL Aircraft
The e200 aircraft should have a range of up to around 60 nm
The two-seat ePlane e200X eVTOL aircraft
The two-seat ePlane e200X eVTOL aircraft could start initial commercial operations in markets including the UAE, India, and Southeast Asia. © Empire Aviation

Indian start-up ePlane has said it will have the first full-scale prototype of its e200X eVTOL aircraft ready to start flight testing around the middle of 2025, with another example to follow by year-end, and a third in 2026. The Chennai-based company has spent the past seven months conducting wind tunnel tests with a quarter-scale model as it works towards a highly ambitious target for type certification by the end of 2026.

To accelerate efforts to get the two-seat model to market, ePlane this year intends to raise between $30 million and $50 million through a Series C funding round. In 2024, a Series B round raised $14 million for the program with backers led by Speciale Invest and Micelo, who had previously supported a $5.85 million pre-Series A round in 2022.